Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth Harris speaks at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College on Wednesday. Harris announced a grant to boost education and job training for the manufacturing sector.

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Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and 15 other technical colleges around the state are the recipients of $15 million in federal funding aimed at expanding training programs to supply workers for open manufacturing jobs.

U.S. Department of Labor Deputy Secretary Seth Harris toured the college Wednesday in Green Bay as part of the announcement of the funding.

"This is an advanced manufacturing program that prepares workers for the jobs of today and also the jobs of tomorrow," he said. "That's why the labor department gave the consortium ... a grant to expand these programs and work more ...